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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

A TREE COVERING MANY AcREs.-The
banyan tree is one of the remarkable pro-
ducts of the East Indies. Its life is usually
begun from minute seed dropped bys some
bird upon some other plant, such as the
wild date, which it brushes as it grows.
Every branch from the main body throws
out its own roots, which constantly thick
ening. descend to the ground several yards
below, where they strike in, increase to
large trunks, and send out new branches
from their tops, which in turn repeat the
process. The Botanic Garden at Calcutta,
contains great banyan, now about a CEN
fury old, which has parent trunk ~ feet
in circumference, 232 root trunks ranging
from few inches to foot around. with a
vast leafy crown S57 feet in circumference.
Near the hill fort of Wysatgarh, in the
Bombay presidency, is banyan whose top
in 1882 measured 1857 feet in circumfer-
ence. Other specimens greatly exceed
even this prodigious size, single trees be-
ing said to cover thirteen acres. The
famous banyan under which Alexander the
Great stopped, on the banks of the Ner-
budda, once sheltered 1000 men, and when
seen by Forbes generation ago, though
much reduced in size by floods, was still
nearly 1000 feet in circumference, and had
more than 5000 trunks.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mexican War Veteran.

The wonderful efficacy of Swift's Specific as
remedy and cure for rheumatism and all blood
disease, has never had more conspicuous
Illustration than this case affords. The candid
unsolicited and emphatic testimony given by
the venerable gentleman must be accepted as
convincing and conclusive. The writer is
prominent citiztn of Mississippi. The gentle.
man to whom MI. Martin refers, and to whom
he is indebted for the advice to which he owes
his final relief from years of suffering. is Mr..
King, for many years the popular night clerk of
the Lawrence House, at Jle&-cn.
JACKSON, Mss, April %. 1887.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co1iPkNY, Atlanta, Ga:
Gelliemen-l have been an invalid pensioner
for forty years, having contracted pulmonary
and other diseases in the Mexican War, but not
till the 1s of March, 1875 dill I feel any symp-
toms of rheumatism. On that day was sud-
denly stricken with that disease in both hips
and ankles; For twenty days walk on
clutches. Then the pain was less vi ,lent, but it
shifted from joint to joint. For.weeks would
be totally disabled, either ON one side of my
body or the other. The pain never left me
moment Tor eleven years and seven mouths
that is from March l, 1875, when / was first
attacked, to October |, 1856, when l was cured.
during these eleven years of intense suffering
tried innumerable prescriptions from various
physicians and tried every thing suggested by
friends but if ever received the least benefit
from any medicine taken internally or exter-
tdNdfcOl II. ABOUT urSL
OF September, made arrangements TO go to the
Hot Springs of Arkansas, having despaired of
every other remedy, when / accidentally met
an old acquaintance, Mr.. King, now of the
Lawrence House, of this city. He had once
been great sufferer from rheumatism, and, as
suppose, had been cured by visit to Hot
Springs. But when met him, he told me his
visit to the Hot Springs was in vain-he found
no relief. On his return from Hot Springs he
heard for the first time, of the S. S. s. as rem,
edy for rheumatism. He tried il and six bottles
made a complete cure. Several years have
passed since, but he has had no return of the
disease.
Immediately returned to try it. In Septem-
Der ! took four bottles, and by the first of Oc-
tober was well-as for as the rheumatism was
concerned. All pain had disappeared, and
HAVE NOT FELT A TwINGE OF IT SINCE.
have no interest in making this statement
other than the hope that it may direct some
other sufferer to sure source Of relief and if it
has this result l am well rewarded for my
trouble. am very respectfully and truly your
friend. ]. NJ. Il. MARTIN.
For sale by all druggists. Treatise on Blood
and Skin Diseases mailed free.
THE'EwIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
ly-TuThS Drawer 3, Atlanta. Ga.
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CHLoRoFoRM IN HYDRoPHoBIA.-Dr
V. G. Miller, an old army surgeon, Of
Usage Mission, Kansas says that he once
treated terrible case of hydrophobia with
chloroform, using altogether about three
pounds. 1t conquered the spasms. A
Shiny, stringy secretion ran ont of the
mans mouth, which probably carried off
the poison, and for long time he could
not swallow, but in three weeks he en-
tirely recovered. The salivary glands
seem to have close relation to hydro
phobia. Many years ago reports were
published from Russia on the authority OF
NJ. Marochetti, a hospital surgeon, of the
cure of hydrophobia by piercing with a
red-hot needle certain swellings that rose
under the tongue, and giving decoction
of broom. Dr. NJ. said that fourteen were
cured in this manner This discovery
seems to have been forgotten.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

A SIMPLE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
A correspondent of the English Mechanic
says: Let all of "ours'' know the follow
ing: Ny wife has suffered occasionally
with acute rheumatism in her feet, with
painful swelling, completely taking her
off her feet for many days at time. The
following remedy was recommended re,
Gently and tried, and took away the agoniz-
ing pain in less than fifteen minutes, and
she can now walk very fairly, and in a
couple of days she will be able to button
her boots and walk without stick OF
crutch: One quart of milk, quite hot,
into which stir one ounce of alum; this
makes curds and whey. Battle the part
affected with the whey until too cold In
the meantime, keep the curds hot, and,
after bathing, put them on as poultice,
wrap in flannel and-so to sleep Of you
CAM Three applications should make a
perfect cure, even in aggravated cases.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
NOT FIT TO BE KISSED.

I" What ails papa, mother?' said a sweet little
girl,
Her bright laugh revealing her teeth white as
pearl.
" love him, and kiss him, and sit on his knee,
But his kisses don't smell good when he kisses
me-"
" But mamma her eyes opened wide as she
"Do you like nasty kisses of 'bacco and smoke ?
They might do for boys, but for ladies and girls
l don't think them NICE and she tossed her
bright curls.
" Does nobodys papa have mouth nice and
clean?
With kisses like yours mamma-thats what I
mean.
l want to kiss papa, love him SO well,
But kisses don't taste good that have such a
smell.
a. It's nasty to smoke, and eat bacco and spit,
And the kisses aren't good and aren't sweet not
a bitp
And her blossom-like face wore look of dis
gust,
As she gave out her verdict so earnest and just.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
Secondhand Corks.


The Boston Journal Of Heath alludes to
a subject which was discussed in tue last
issue of the american analyst in the follow
ing terms, under the heading of "a Com
mon Abuse"
We 90 not recall ever having seen at
tention drawn to the fact that very many
of the so-called "bottlers" are using sec
ond-hand eorks, which are gathered UP
from saloons, ash-barrels at the dump
and elsewhere. These corks are sold bv
scavengers to dealers, who in turn dispose
OF them to bottlers. Again they do serv-
ice, and eventually find their way into
filth and rubbish, to be gathered up for a
second, and possibly third time. Some
body through whose hands they pass, of
course washes them, and probably in acid,
but those who are familiar with the bust
ness know they are not thoroughly cleaned,
nor is it possible to clean them by the
means used. 1t can readily be seen how
much mischief to health may be done in
this way. During the summer season,
especially, there is great sale Of
carbonated drinks, such as ginger
ale, cider lemon soda, "tonicsn
etc, and very many bottlers of these
beverages use, us stated, the secondhand
corks. That poisons and gems of disease
may be transmitted by them all must agree
who are familiar with the ease with which
such virulent agents are transported.
Take, for instance, corks which have been
used in bottles containing croton oil or lini-
ments strong with aconite Sufficient of
poisons might remain within the corks put
to such service, although they have been
washed in the way bottlers wash them, to
make i'll a person drinking from bottle
in which they had been used second time.
No one would, knowingly, drink the con-
tents of a bottle stoppered with cork
which had once been thrown into the filth
of North street, possible after being for
weeks in room in which a child had been
ill and died with diphtheria, or other infec-
tious disease. Those who buy bottle goods
from many dealers are subjected to Just
such an indignity. 1t is hard to realize
that there are brutes so fendish, they will
run the rish of poisoning their fellow men
for the sake of saving few pennies. Is
there no limit to human greed?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
Don't

Let that cold of yours run on. You think
it is light thing. But it may run into
catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or con-
sumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is
dangerous, Consumption is death itself.
The breathing apparatus must be kept
healthy and clear of all distractions and
offensive matter. Otherwise there is
trouble ahead.
All the diseases of these parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs,
can be delightfully."- and entirely cured by
the use of Boschee's German Syrup. If
you don't know this already, thousands
and thousands of people can tell you.
They have been cured by it, and know
how it is themselves" Bottle only 70
cents. Ask any druggist
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
The Finser-Ring,

OF all the ornaments with which vanity,
superstition and affection have decorated
the human form, few have more curious
bits of history than the lingering. From
the earliest times the ring has been a IA
vorite ornament, and the reasons for this
general preference shown for it over ether
articles OF lewelry are numerous and CO.
gent. Ornaments whose place is on some
portion of the apparel, or in the hair, must
be laid aside with the clothing or head
dress; are thus easily lost and often not at
once missed. Pins, brooches, buckles,
clasps, buttons, all sooner or later become
defective in some part, and are liable to Is.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

CTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAC
- rAmento, IS. In the Superior Court in and for
said county The people of the State of Califor-
mia to JOHN DROHAN, greeting: You are
in the Superior Court of the county of Sacra-
mento, State aforesaid by the filing of a
complaint in the Clerks Office of said Court on
the 9th day of JULY, 1887, in which action
MICHAEL DR0HAN is plaintiff, and you are de-
PENDANT That the general nature of the action,
To recover judgment against you for the sum
of 81 10J so, and interest thereon from the 18th
day of August, 1882. at the rate of seven per
cent. per annum. And plaintiff alleges that on
the 18th day of August, 1882, in the superior
Court of the county of Sacramento, State of Cal
ifornia, o Judgment was duly gwen and made
by said Court in favor of plaintiff and against
YOU in an action in said Court last above named
pending wherein this plaintiff and said defend
ant was defendant, for the sum of 81 100 so
gold coin. which said judgment bears interest
at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, and
that the same has not been paid and is due, ow-
ing and unpaid. all of which viii more fully
appear in the complaint to which ference
is hereby made. And you are hereby directed
to appear and answer said complaint within
ten days from the service of this writ, ex-
clasiye of the day of service, if served on you in
said county of SACRAMENTO; and within thirty
DAYS exclusive of the day of service if served
elsewhere. And you are further notified that
unless you so appear and answer within the
time above specified, the plaintiff viii take
default and Judgment against you as prayed for
in the complaint
In testimony whereof, I, VIM. B. Hamilton,
Clerk of the Court aforesaid, hereunto set my
hand and afiix the seal of said Court this 6th
day of July A. D. 1887.
[sEAL.l WIN. B. HAMILTON, Clerk.
by Jos. ]. GUTH Deputy Clerk.
RoB'T I. DEvLIN, Attorney for Plaintiff.
gl0-QtS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

CIGARETTES AND EYEsIGHT.- great
est enemy to the eyes of young men is the
cigarette Recently disease has appeared
among smokers which is dangerous and
after careful investigation the best of au-
thorities, who for long time were at
loss to understand the peculiar malady.
have traced it to the small paper-covered
tobacco sticks. 1t is now known as the
Cigarette eye and can be cured only by
long treatment Its symptoms are dim
ness and film-like gathering over the
eye, which appears and disappears at inter
walls. If young men continue to smoke
cigarettes excessively they may expect to
be afflicted by this troublesome disease, and
it is not relieved by snecfacles
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

A company is said to be organized in
New York for the purpose of importing
and selling products of Hungary, and par
ticularly wines of that country, in the
United States.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

NOTICE TO CREDIToRs-EsTATE OF
IN ISAAC LEWIS, deceased. Notice is here
by given by the undersigned, executIix of the
last will and testament of ISAAC LEWIS,
deceased, to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary afIidayits or vouch-
ers, within ten months after the first publica-
ton of this notice to said executrix, at the Of
flee OF Isaac Joseph, attorney-atlaw, at No. 531
X street, Sacramento city, California.
ROSA LEWIS, Executrix
Dated, October s. 1887
ISAAC JOSEPH, Attorney for Exeeutrix.
oc 1arvEtg
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

ANGosTURA BITTERs are the best remedy
for removing indigestion and all diseases
originating from the digestive organs. Be
ware of counterfeits. Ask your grocer or
druggist for the genuine article, manufaet-
nred by DR.. J. G. B. Siegert e. Sons.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

If you have catarrh you are in danger, as
the disease is liable to become chronic and
affect your general health, or develop into
consumption, Hoods Sarsaparilla cures
catarrh.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

HUNDREDS of persons who have used
Ayers Hair Vigor attest Its value, an 8
stimulant and tonic, for preventing and
curing badness, cleansing the scalp, and
restoring the youthful color to faded and
gray hair
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
THE NEW JERUSALEM.

When the birds have hushed their choirs
Through the sunsets rifted fires,
Like queenly diadem
Clean afar the golden spires
OF the New Jerusalem.
Thorny be our path and sterile,
There is rest from pain and peril
Where, with many flashing gem,
Jasper, chrysolite and beryl,
Shines the New Jerusalem.
Not for these my heart beats faster,
But for her assembled Master
Oh, to touch His garments hem
In the courts of alabaster,
In the New Jerusalem
katherine Lee Bates, in the independent
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
SAPOLIO

Is the proper thing. Try cake of it. Common
soap fails to accomplish satisfactory results in
securing and cleaning, and necessitates great
outlay of time and labor, which more than
balances any saving in cost. Practical people
will find POLIO the best and cheapest soap fol-
house cleaning and securing. All grocers sell
it. No. D.
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he sinks back upon his pillow-dead. A
pure and noble man was gone the last of
sweet and holy life. The loud walls of
woe that pierced the air were for moment
suspended, as the roar of great crash
cleaved the air, as if some giant power had
rent the earth. CONSERVATION and wonder
were written on every face, as in horror
stricken voices they whispered: "The
tree, the tree has fallen.n Alas, indeed,
the tree had fallen The wondrous old
oak, the poets joy, the pride of the country,
was laid low.
Another spring brought freshness and
beauty into the forest, and heralded in a
child who was destined to sport in the
forest and to play as conspicuous part in
the leafy region as the noble man whose
actions are still reverently spoken Of The
same sun frightened the woods with her
sweet smile, the same stream babbled over
the rocks, and the same sky arched gently
| above. Other trees were reared towards
the skies; a tiny shrub that would in time
become a great oak, peeped from the spot
where the famous tree had fallen, to re-
peat the same story and to live the same
life that its fallen ancestor had done. Rest
ancient oaks; who can say that thou hast
accomplished no good? Thy name shall
be whispered lovingly in the forest when
the springtide is rife with thanksgiving !;
while the summer advances its birds shall
carry thy messages to the extremities of
the forest; while the autumn covers the
earth with melancholy, its leaves as they
fall will whisper the glory of thy life, and
when the storm RACES the thunder will
sound thy praise from pole to pole
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

NOTICE TO CREDITORS. ESTATE OF
IN WIN. F. LYON, deceased. Notice is here
gwen by the un nf tSa v G6o r.
VIM F. LYON, deceased, to the eredi-
tors of, and all persons having claims against
the said deceased, to exhibit them with the ne
cessary affidavits or vouchers, within four
months after the first publication of this notice.
to Geo. F. Lyon, said administrator, at the Office
of Ed. VI. Martin, No. 603 / street, Sacramento
city and county. California.
GEO. F. LYON, Administrator.
Ed NJ MARTIN, Attorney for Petitioner.
Dated Sacramento, october rs, 1887. o2s5ts
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05

"Ahl there he is, the old devil" ex-
claimed a six-foot corporal; Il was sure
of seeing him firing at us"
That corporal, Hermann by name, had
been a workman in the village of Chaille
for years, and he knew ever inhabitant
intimately.
A Colonel, pushing his way through his
soldiers, said to Papa Pierre:
"Show your hands, man."
The old man showed his hands. They
were black with powder.
Kill him." yelled the officer.
Hermann thrust his bayonet in the
breast of the old man. A moment Papa
Pierre staggered on his legs, then fell face
downward.
The brave patriot, the valiant soldier
was dead
"Quick-bring some straw" cried the
officer. Let US burn that village as we did
Bazeille. "That will teach lesson to those
raseals of Frenchmen."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
Electric Belt Free

To introduce it and obtain agents we will for the
next sixty days give away free of charge, in each
county in the U. s.. limited number Of our Ger
man Electro Gaivanic Suspensory Belts
Price, IS; positive and unfailing cure for Ner-
vous Debility, Variocele, Emissions Impotency,
etc. $500 co Reward paid if every Belt we manu-
faciure does not generate genuine electric cur
rent Address at once, ELECTRIC BELT
AGENCY, ?. o. Boz 17S, Brooklyn, N. Y.
dI3-1VfTuThS
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Cheeseman's Specific Mixture.

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without the least exposure. change of dist, or
change In application to bus ness, The medi-
cine contains nothing that is of the least iaIury
70 the constitution. Ask yo1r druggist Tor it.
Price, 81 bottle. fe26-lyWs
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The Germans advanced. The firing had
decreased on the French side; all at once
it ceased completely. Papa Pierre had no
more cartridges left.
He opened his door, entered his cabin,
threw a glance on the likeness of his
granddaughter, then on wooden crucifx
and awaited the enemy
One by one the Germans climbed over
the barricade.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
THE STORY OF AN OLD OAK.

THE following example of imaginative COM
position is by young girl in one of the gram
mar schools of this city. 1t is given as an illus
tration of the method of expression employed
by schoolgirl of fifteen, and it is believed will
interest those of similar age.]
The green trees whispered low and mild;
1t was q sound of Joy
They were my playmates when child.
And rocked me in their arms so wild!
Still they looked at me, and smiled
AS i'll were Il boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-12

SOME people have been suspicious that Land
Commissioner Sparks was not scintillating
around so promiscuously for nothing, and it
now turns out that he aspires to be a luminary
of the first, or, at least, the second magnitude.
It is said that the Commissioner whose official
occupation consists chiefly in writing decis-
ions which Mr.. Lamar overrules, has been
making overtures to Governor Hill for an
alliance in 1888, which will make the Demo-
cratic presidential ticket Hill and Sparks AS
his contribution to the political assets of the
firm, Mr.. Sparks, it is understood, agrees to
deliver to Governor Hill, in the national con-
vention, the votes Of the delegations from
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Michi-
gan, Ohio, Indiana, and, possibly, Missouri.
It is evident from this offer that the Commits
sicner regards his certificate of appointment
to the Land Office as title clear to the best
part of the earth There is some reason to
believe that his claim will be contested, and
that he may not be able to hand over the
goods; but it will be fight which may afford
a good deal Of amusement to disinterested
spectators who enjoy seeing the Democratic
animals stirred up.